Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step.

Level 5 books are for children who are ready to read stories with more challenging word patterns or non-verbal sentences with 2 or 3 words, and with total support through illustrations and extensive use of repetition. Double spacing is used between words to ensure children see where each new word in a sentence begins and ends to ensure the focus remains on reading core words.

What are they painting? Two little monsters are painting spots, stripes, squares, zigzags and triangles. But where are they painting? Finally the reader discovers that the little monsters have actually been painting the shapes on their sleeping mum!

Pages 14 and 15 show the fully painted mum-monster, so children can recap what the little monsters painted.

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme .

There are 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Tasha Pym is the author of Blot and Og's Monster Party, illustrated by Charles Fuge (Gullane's Children's Books) and Harry Fly, Colour Bears and Super Sculptures (Collins Education). Joel Stewart grew up in Sheffield after spending his earliest years in a commune in the wilds somewhere near Barnsley. He obtained a first class Honours degree in illustration from Falmouth College of Arts and was already working on his first picture book, The Adventures of a Nose, before he graduated. He plays the banjo and button accordion and likes to draw while watching films. Other titles illustrated by Joel Stewart include The Magic Paintbrush (Macmillan), Jabberwocky (Walker Books), Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Walker Books) and Me and My Mammoth (Macmillan). Olivia Villet sent her work to Bloomsbury unsolicited in a very beautifully painted envelope. From that first contact Chester's Big Surprise was developed. Olivia is already working on another book for Bloomsbury Children's Books. Olivia Villet studied at art college in South Africa where she was born and brought up. She is currently staying in London, hoping to develop her career as an illustrator. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.